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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Changing Permissions Post 14810 by pdavid on Wednesday 6th of February 2002 07:57:43 PM
Old 02-06-2002
Changing Permissions

Is it possible to change the permissons
for an entire directory in one shot?

I'm telneting on to a linux server.

...just a beginner--

--Paul
 

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uucheck(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       uucheck(1M)

NAME
uucheck - check the uucp directories and permissions file SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/uucp/uucheck [-v] [-x debug-level] DESCRIPTION
uucheck checks for the presence of the uucp system required files and directories. uucheck also does error checking of the Permissions file (/etc/uucp/Permissions). uucheck is executed during package installation. uucheck can only be used by the super-user or uucp. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -v Give a detailed (verbose) explanation of how the uucp programs will interpret the Permissions file. -x debug-level Produce debugging output on the standard output. debug-level is a number from 0 to 9. Higher numbers give more detailed debugging information. FILES
/etc/uucp/Devices /etc/uucp/Limits /etc/uucp/Permissions /etc/uucp/Systems /var/spool/locks/* /var/spool/uucp/* /var/spool/uucppublic/* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbnuu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
uucp(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), uucico(1M), uusched(1M), attributes(5) BUGS
The program does not check file/directory modes or some errors in the Permissions file such as duplicate login or machine name. SunOS 5.11 18 May 1993 uucheck(1M)
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